The Remembrance Project - Bringing a voice to Americans killed by illegal aliens

By Maria Espinoza, Director, The Remembrance Project
Published in The Social Contract
Volume 23, Number 1 (Fall 2012)
Issue theme: "Victims of Immigration"
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_1/tsc_23_1_espinoza.shtml

Keywords:
victims, remembrance, project

Jim Binger visits his
daughter, Brittany, each week. He takes
flowers to her and stays to talk for a bit.
Jim and his wife, Joann, have been making these weekly visits to a
daughter they love for seven years and seven months.

What happened on
January 5, 2005, to a 16-year-old girl and Jim’s only surviving child (earlier,
a daughter died from a congenital heart defect) will not soon be forgotten by
the shocked residents of James City, Virginia.
Brittany Binger was brutally beaten, raped, and murdered that night. So
brutally, in fact, that she could only be identified by her dental
records. An illegal alien, connected to
this vicious crime through irrefutable DNA, was arrested, and for now, resides
comfortably in a Virginia hospital for the criminally insane. Justice is neither swift nor fair in this
case, as Jim awaits the case’s second judge’s determination on whether Oswaldo
Martinez, now 41 years old, is competent to stand trial as an illiterate, deaf
mute from El Salvador. (The previous
judge, now retired, had considered releasing this suspected killer for
deportation due to his “inability to participate in his own defense.”) As is so often the case, we also learned that
the alleged killer had been previously arrested for DUI, driving without a
license, and possessing a fraudulent Social Security number, offenses for which
he should have been deported. Sadly for
the Bingers, nothing was done and he was released back into the community, to
continue to live with his illegal alien brother and work as a laborer for a
local employer.

Today, a new
judge presides over the case and Mr. and Mrs. Binger eagerly wait for the day
they obtain justice for Brittany. Over a
recent breakfast, Jim told me that all that really matters is that one day he
can visit Brittany’s
gravesite and tell her, “We got him, sweetie.”
And…begin the long-delayed healing process.

And there is the
November 16, 2010, case of the murder of Joshua Wilkerson, an 18-year-old high
school senior from Pearland, Texas.
Giving an acquaintance a ride home from school, the illegal alien
allegedly beat, strangled, burned, and dumped Joshua’s body in a nearby ditch. As in the Binger case, the alleged killer,
Hermelio Moralez of Belize,
should have been in custody that
November day. The records
show that just a few days before the Wilkerson murder, the alleged killer was
standing in front of a judge for another crime, but was released!

Compounding
these tragedies, one elected official shamelessly went so far as to blame the
victim. Houston’s Mayor Annise Parker
stated to me during a recent “3 Minutes with the Mayor” that the death of
Officer Rodney Johnson, shot several times in the back of the head by an
apprehended illegal alien, was the officer’s fault for not conducting a more
thorough search of the suspect. We, at The Remembrance Project, (and we believe
that most rational people would agree), contend that if the illegal alien was
not in the country, Officer Johnson would most likely still be alive, with his
loving wife and five children who miss him daily. It is this warped-minded thinking exemplified
by Mayor Parker that adds to the families’ tragedies.

Thousands of
similar stories of loss, suffering, and injustice being perpetrated upon our
American families can be readily found all across the United States, from the
West Coast to the East Coast, in the Great Plains and along the Great Lakes, at
the border and in the heartlands. No one
is immune to the illegal who drives wildly drunk, or the wanna-be gang-banger
who needs to machete innocent citizens to gain entry and respect into the
Latino or other gangs. We have uncovered
the fact that Americans are under assault, a fact under-reported by the press,
and unconnected by our elected leaders at all levels of government. Sanctuary cities, unsecured communities,
human trafficking, molestations of our children, are all part of the vernacular
of this disease that illegal immigration speaks, and must be addressed
now! Each of us should ask: “What is it about a government that neither
cares about protecting its citizens, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution, nor
wants the public to know just how many of our citizens are being killed each
day by these U.S. invaders?” It is
estimated that 25 Americans or legal residents die each day at the hands of
illegal aliens [source: http://www.wnd.com/2006/11/39031/]. We must demand justice for American citizens,
not “social justice” for illegals.
Insist that our elected officials remember that “We, the People,” not
the illegal aliens, are their constituents.
And that the racism perpetrated by illegal invaders upon Americans of
all ethnic backgrounds is real. Common
sense in upholding the law, not sensitivity to lawbreakers, must be foremost in
the minds and souls of our elected officials.

Finally, there
is a solution, and it rests, as usual, with all of us. At The Remembrance Project, through our
Stolen
Lives Quilt initiative, we will continue to expose the truth about
the magnitude of lives so often stolen from our families, our friends, our
communities, and our nation. The Quilt
is bringing a visual image showing the faces of our many precious stolen lives,
and is dedicated to remembering and honoring their lives. Together, with the help of concerned citizens
from all 50 states, we will bring a solidarity of determination to this country
that will result in a unified scream of
“
Stop the Killing,” protect our sacred borders,
deny social benefits to illegal aliens and their families, and impose strict
penalties upon employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. We must remember, we are a nation of laws,
and if these laws are ignored, the result will be a continued assault upon our
families, our society, and ultimately our freedoms that so may have given their
lives to protect.

At a special
event in Houston, Texas, on October 16, 2012, The Remembrance Project will
hold a memorial for American victims of illegal alien killings from all 50
states. If anyone has information about
such killings in their state, please contact us at director @ TheRemembranceProject . org.

About the author

Maria Espinoza is a co-founder of The Remembrance Project, an organization dedicated to informing the public of the terrible tragedies caused by illegal alien criminals. One initiative of The Remembrance Project is the Stolen Lives Quilt, which serves as a civic reminder of the deadly consequences of unsecured borders.

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